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IMAGE “When we arrived at the Hamer tribe village I scoped out potential backgrounds and found this house just being kissed by a low sun. I knew I wanted a shot in that spot with the family that lives in that house for added context. I wanted some separation and depth too, so got them to stand away from the house. The women were very natural in front of the camera. All I said to themwas either look at the camera or face away. Perhaps the small camera was less intimidating which helped their natural-looking poses.”
system into a challenging real world situation, complete with sandstorms and often really tricky, contrasty lighting. If you’re going to take portraits in Ethiopia, my advice is to hire a guide. Without a guide, I wouldn’t have been able to get 90% of my pictures.Also, take enoughmoney to tip your subjects, especially inside the villages. I spent around £50 in tips for all the portraits I shot. For his trip, Tommy Reynolds took Olympus’s flagship camera, the OM-D E-M1 Mark II. This innovative and remarkable camera rewrote the rules of what was possible when it was launched. The ability to shoot full resolution 20.4-megapixel Raw at 60fps in single AFmode and 18fps with full AF and autoexposure is incredible and opens up boundless opportunities. But there’s evenmore. In Pro Capture mode, the OM-D E-M1 Mark II lets you go back in time thanks to its large buffer that has the capacity to About the kit
I shoot in manual exposure mode in available light and with flash. I know that once settings are dialled in for a particular scenario, images won’t differ slightly as I move around. With flash, I get the background exposure right, then set the flash to fill to give a balance between the foreground and the background. On occasion I thought there would be no way of recovering deep shadows but the
Raw files surprised me by what was possible without noise issues. One of the main reasons I go on these shoots is to take myself out of my photography comfort zone. The best art is the art you make when your head is just above water and when the pressure is on. My next trip is to Asia and I can’t wait. I’ll definitely be taking the Olympus system: it’s the perfect travel camera.”
IMAGE “Balancing contrasty light with flash can be very awkward. This shot was very tricky. I had to be accurate because the boy was much closer to the flash than his dad. My first few tests had a well-lit boy and an adult in darkness, or vice versa. We spent ten minutes on the set-up until I was satisfied, then I just needed to wait for the boy to look towards the flash, not his dad, as his face would have been in darkness. After a patient wait for the right moment I got a shot I was really happy with.”
of the OM-D E-M1. Among a long list of features, there’s a fully featured exposure system, autofocusing with a 121 point system and five-axis image stabilisation in a portable, robust weather-proofed body that accepts Olympus’s range of dedicated M.Zuiko lenses. For more on the Olympus
record up to 35 shots. Partially depress the shutter release in this mode and the camera starts capturing images and storing them in the buffer but without actually recording them. It is only when you fully depress the shutter release that the images – up to 35 – already in the
buffer are written to the SD card as well as the shots you took in real time. Speed is just one aspect
OM-D E-Mark II and its system, please see the website.
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